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Job Title

Strategy & Ops Lead (Toronto)

Level

Mid-Senior: 4-8 years in strategy, BizOps or finance. Reports directly to the CEO as the company's first dedicated strategy hire.

Salary

CAD 120K-160K base + equity

Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (In office)

Company Description The client is a Toronto-based consumer startup turning collecting into play: users rip packs of real trading cards (TCG and sports) from anywhere and earn rewards along the way. It is built by the team behind a sports prediction app with millions of users. Backed by Union Square Ventures, KB Partners and Kevin Durant's 35 Ventures, it has raised roughly $15M to date and has crossed eight figures in GMV.

What You'll Do

- Own forecasting, cash flow and financing options, and help tell a sharp story when the company raises.
- Make the inventory bets, model unit economics and make sure operations scale ahead of demand.
- Spot tax, legal and regulatory risks early, including the ones nobody has thought of yet.
- Build the case for new markets, categories and partnerships,



then negotiate the terms and chase the timeline until it lands.
- Help leadership work out who the team is missing, how to find them and how to keep everyone shipping.

Who You Are

- 4-8 years in strategy, BizOps or finance, ideally consulting, banking or PE followed by a high-growth consumer, e-commerce or marketplace company.
- Exceptional drive and agency: you see what needs doing and do it without waiting for a brief or a perfect dataset.
- AI-native: you use AI tools daily to research, model, analyze and automate.
- Fluent in the numbers: you can build a forecast, unit economics and a cash-flow model without a template.
- Experience with physical goods, inventory or logistics, or the appetite to get your hands dirty in them.
- Real deal-negotiation experience, and the willingness to bring the counter-argument to leadership.
- Excellent written communication, and some interest in TCGs, sports cards or collectibles.

Why Join

- A seat at the leadership table of a high-velocity startup with real revenue and real users, reporting directly to the CEO.
- Unusually broad scope that quickly shows you which parts of the business you want to lead long-term.
- A shot at defining the platform for gamified collectibles and sports commerce, with competitive compensation and equity.

📌 Strategy & Ops Lead at a Union Square Ventures-Backed Sports Collectibles Startup (Toronto)
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